ci: Add workflow that runs a given task on AWS EC2 container.

.github/workflows/aws-ec2-job.yml

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+name: aws-ec2-job
+
+on: pull_request
+
+jobs:
+
+  start-runner:
+    name: Start self-hosted EC2 runner
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      label: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.label }}
+      ec2-instance-id: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION }}
+
+      - name: Start EC2 runner
+        id: start-ec2-runner
+        uses: machulav/ec2-github-runner@v2
+        with:
+          mode: start
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.REPO_SCOPE_PAT }}
+          ec2-image-id: ${{ secrets.EC2_IMAGE_ID }}
+          ec2-instance-type: t3.xlarge
+          subnet-id: ${{ secrets.SUBNET_ID }}
+          security-group-id: ${{ secrets.SECURITY_GROUP_ID }}
+          ## iam-role-name: my-role-name # optional, requires additional permissions
+          ## aws-resource-tags: > # optional, requires additional permissions
+          ##   [
+          ##     {"Key": "Name", "Value": "ec2-github-runner"},
+          ##     {"Key": "GitHubRepository", "Value": "${{ github.repository }}"}
+          ##   ]
+
+  aws-ec2-job:
+
+    name: run the benchmarks on the runner
+    needs: start-runner # required to start the main job when the runner is ready
+
+    runs-on: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }} # run the job on the newly created runner
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup Benchmarks
+        run: echo 'Replace with Johns Benchmarking Command Steps'
+
+  stop-runner:
+
+    name: Stop self-hosted EC2 runner
+    needs:
+      - start-runner # required to get output from the start-runner job
+      - aws-ec2-job # required to wait when the main job is done
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    if: ${{ always() }} # required to stop the runner even if the error happened in the previous jobs
+
+    steps:
+
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION }}
+
+      - name: Stop EC2 runner
+        uses: machulav/ec2-github-runner@v2
+        with:
+          mode: stop
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.REPO_SCOPE_PAT }}
+          label: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }}
+          ec2-instance-id: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}